Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean